A DBD Tournament Ruleset Suggestion
Hi, AeroLink here. With my years of experience competing in Super Smash Bros. including a few traditional fighting games, I made a ruleset that can be the best way to determine the better team in a competitive environment for Dead By Daylight.
Now I know that DBD is largely not considered a competitive game, much less an esport, however I believe a competitive community can still exist. You can look no further than the Super Smash Bros. series as an example of an intended party game having a competitive following.
Anyway, here is the ruelset:
One team of survivors and killer vs. another team of survivors and killer in a best 2 out of 3 sets to win the entire match.
Game 1 - Team 1 Survivors vs. Team 2 Killer
Game 2 - Team 1 Killer vs. Team 2 Survivors
Game Win conditions:
Survivor - 3 or 4 man escape
Killer - 3 or 4 sacrifices
2 man escape/2K is a tie
(2 game wins) or (1 tie and 1 game win) results in set win.
1 game win from both teams results in a tiebreaker game (game 3 of the set).
Tiebreaker (game 3):
The team with the least amount of time of their game win, picks 1 of 2 options:
1. Choose to play as a survivor team or killer and ban 3 maps.
2. Select the map after bans are declared.
The other team picks the remaining option. Then characters are selected.
Winner wins the set.
If there is a game tie, roles are switched between the opposing teams on the same map for game 4.
If there is a game tie on the 2nd tiebreaker game (game 4), roles are switched again between opposing teams and the map is decided by the team that didn't pick option 2 for game 5.
Repeat until winner is decided (a different map is chosen every 2 games by the team that didn't pick the last map).
All perks are legal.
All items/add-ons are legal.
All offerings are legal.
All maps are legal.
Exceptions:
Ebony/Ivory Memento Mori is banned.
Skeleton/Dull Key is banned.
Higher seed chooses whether to strike first or not; otherwise rps or coin flip to decide.
Starter maps: Coal Tower in addition to 4 of the other most balanced maps considered by the community (to be decided).
Killers, perks, and add-ons are secret (not required to inform) before the start of the game.
Order of the match:
1. Strike maps in an order of 1-2-2-1 (1 is first team, 2 is second team). Map is decided for set 1.
2. Characters are selected.
3. Winner of the set bans 3 maps for the next set.
4. Loser of the set chooses map for the next set.
5. Characters are selected.
6. Repeat steps 3-5 until match winner is decided.
Comments
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As an afterthought, there should be a minimum of 4 players (1 player can play both roles) and a maximum of 5 players (1 player can choose to only play Killer) to a team.
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Bump.
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I would absolutely adore a competitive scene for this game, but unfortunately, the amount of RNG and bugs kinda kill this games competative aspects.
Want to play nurse? Heres a bunch of random deadzones.
Want to play spirit? Heres the chance of survivors making no audio due to a bug thats been in the game for like what? 6 months? and it can destroy a game for a spirit.
Even down to the tiles you get it's RNG, and one pallet at competitive play can possibly either get the killer a 1k or 3k. Doesn't help that literally every second literally has an impact on the match.
I could go on with how powerful survivors actually are at that level but id have to write a full novel to explain it.
I just don't think adding any rules could make this game fun and fair at a tournament level. Don't get me wrong IMO this game is competitive, but ever since ruin was removed its just waaaay to RNG dependent and completely in the survivors control.
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you shouldn't allow addons or items above rare and offerings should be banned period, this would create a more balanced competitive setting otherwise you could get people using 4 heal medkit, all anti hook offerings, clutch addons, ect.
you can't have clutches or items that can last all game and call that competitive. limiting all items/addons to rare or below gets ride of nearly all unfair addons and prevents people from bringing in items that can last all game.
edit: as for perks i think anything is fine since if it's competitive someone should be doing all the totems to find potential devour or to stop noed and there isn't a survivor perk that can ruin the game for the killer except DS but the killer can just slug
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I'm using bragging right rules rn
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I'd like to make them legal first and see if it would be too much of a problem. From my competitive experience, players have been able to adapt to strong strategies.
The reason I ban Moris and Keys, with the exception of the Broken Keys and Cypress Moris, is because the game becomes degenerate and overcentralizing with them included. I believe the add-ons can be dealt with just fine given how strong they are. I'd prefer to give players time to develop counterplay before considering a ban.
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I liked what the Official DBD Discord did with their "Survive the staff" tournaments.
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What was their ruleset?
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Necro Bump.
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